From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T00:36:23+09:00
Subject: Re: String.gsub with regex and block

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 00:25 +0900, Alexey Petrushin wrote:
> "John Smith".gsub /(.+)\s(.+)/ do |name, family|
>       p [name, family]
> 
>       # instead of this
>       p [$1, $2]
>     end 
is it a requirement that you use gsub?

irb(main):008:0> name, family = "John Smith".split
=> ["John", "Smith"]
irb(main):009:0> p [name, family]
["John", "Smith"]
=> nil